Find the most recent file

greetings,
I am developing a web site in which we need to extract the 1st paragraph of the most recent press release and post it as content in a separate page. The press releases are all in their own separate files that get dynamically included into a templates page.
I am able to open the file, get the text, set it to a variable and post to the separate page without a problem. What I need to know is how to know which file to open and read.
I can use the lastModified() method to compare one file agains another, which I suppose would work fine it it was only a handful of files I Was comparing, but this could potentially be a pretty large number of files.
Can anyone think of a relatively efficient way to do this? Are there any array sorting methods that may help here?
Thanks,
-d

If you're looking to sort your File array by lastModified() date, then use the Arrays.sort() method with the following header...
Arrays.sort(Object[] a, Comparator c)
You can easily define the Comparator to sort by the date (either ascending or descending) and voila, you can quickly and easily find the most recent.

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